Applications Support Jobs in England

Application Support
UK > England

The median Application Support salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 336 403
Rank change year-on-year +46 +67 -96
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 898 812 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.99% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.08% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 693 671 1,125
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £27,287
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in England.

Salary trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +65 343 £62,500 -3.85% 47
South East +26 176 £42,500 +4.94% 28
North of England -24 145 £40,000 +1.27% 29
Midlands +41 133 £33,147 -7.93% 12
North West -27 90 £45,000 - 14
East Midlands +23 72 £34,000 -2.86% 8
West Midlands +17 61 £32,121 -19.34% 4
East of England +17 59 £47,500 +6.66% 22
Yorkshire +39 46 £35,579 -6.37% 12
South West -30 42 £37,500 +15.38% 15
North East -27 9 £37,500 +11.11% 3
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Applications Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 393 (43.76%) SQL
2 248 (27.62%) Finance
3 237 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
4 229 (25.50%) Social Skills
5 190 (21.16%) Microsoft
6 157 (17.48%) ITIL
7 149 (16.59%) Windows
8 140 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
9 123 (13.70%) Linux
10 121 (13.47%) Degree
11 119 (13.25%) Unix
11 119 (13.25%) Oracle
12 103 (11.47%) SLA
13 102 (11.36%) SQL Server
14 101 (11.25%) Azure
15 97 (10.80%) Customer Service
16 90 (10.02%) ERP
17 73 (8.13%) Incident Management
18 71 (7.91%) Security Cleared
19 62 (6.90%) Service Management
20 61 (6.79%) Banking
20 61 (6.79%) Dynamics 365
21 59 (6.57%) CRM
22 58 (6.46%) Front Office
22 58 (6.46%) Power Platform
23 56 (6.24%) C#
24 53 (5.90%) Agile
25 51 (5.68%) Java
26 50 (5.57%) .NET
26 50 (5.57%) PowerShell

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (5.01%) IIS
2 36 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 32 (3.56%) WebLogic
4 30 (3.34%) Tomcat
5 26 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (2.67%) Apache
7 13 (1.45%) Confluence
8 12 (1.34%) CMS
8 12 (1.34%) Oracle Service Bus
9 7 (0.78%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.56%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (3.34%) NEC Housing
3 18 (2.00%) Fidessa
4 12 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (1.22%) Dynamics GP
6 10 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (1.11%) thinkFolio
7 8 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.89%) Endur
8 7 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.67%) Infor SunSystems
9 6 (0.67%) ION Anvil
9 6 (0.67%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.67%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.67%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.56%) Aladdin
10 5 (0.56%) Magento
10 5 (0.56%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 101 (11.25%) Azure
2 61 (6.79%) Dynamics 365
3 58 (6.46%) Power Platform
4 46 (5.12%) AWS
5 37 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.01%) SaaS
7 26 (2.90%) Power Automate
8 25 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 13 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.11%) WhatsApp
11 6 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (0.67%) IaaS
11 6 (0.67%) PaaS
12 5 (0.56%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.45%) Datadog
13 4 (0.45%) Serverless
13 4 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.22%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.90%) Firewall
2 28 (3.12%) DNS
3 20 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.00%) DHCP
4 18 (2.00%) FIX Connectivity
5 13 (1.45%) VPN
6 7 (0.78%) SAN
7 6 (0.67%) Broadband
7 6 (0.67%) Internet
7 6 (0.67%) SSL
8 4 (0.45%) 5G
8 4 (0.45%) FTP
8 4 (0.45%) Intranet
9 2 (0.22%) HTTP
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
10 1 (0.11%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 45 (5.01%) Oracle Database
3 35 (3.90%) Power BI
4 21 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (1.89%) MySQL
7 12 (1.34%) Oracle Database 10g
7 12 (1.34%) Oracle Database 11g
7 12 (1.34%) VLDB
8 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.00%) GIS
9 9 (1.00%) MS Access
10 7 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.45%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.45%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 48 (5.35%) JIRA
2 24 (2.67%) Eclipse
3 9 (1.00%) Git
3 9 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Gradle
6 1 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 248 (27.62%) Finance
2 229 (25.50%) Social Skills
3 140 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (6.79%) Banking
5 58 (6.46%) Front Office
6 49 (5.46%) Law
7 44 (4.90%) Police
8 31 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.34%) Local Government
9 30 (3.34%) Marketing
9 30 (3.34%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.78%) Retail
11 23 (2.56%) Back Office
11 23 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.23%) Legal
13 12 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.22%) Automotive
15 5 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.57%) .NET
2 37 (4.12%) Web Services
3 31 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
4 22 (2.45%) HTML
4 22 (2.45%) Spring
5 20 (2.23%) J2EE
5 20 (2.23%) Java EE
6 17 (1.89%) CSS
7 13 (1.45%) REST
7 13 (1.45%) XML
8 11 (1.22%) EDI
8 11 (1.22%) JSON
9 9 (1.00%) ASP.NET
9 9 (1.00%) XSLT
10 8 (0.89%) SOAP
11 6 (0.67%) OLE
12 5 (0.56%) Node.js
13 4 (0.45%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.45%) Middleware
14 2 (0.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (2.67%) Onboarding
1 24 (2.67%) Public Cloud
2 21 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (2.00%) Eurex
6 17 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 15 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 14 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.45%) Equities
10 11 (1.22%) CMDB
11 10 (1.11%) Derivative
11 10 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.89%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.89%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 149 (16.59%) Windows
2 123 (13.70%) Linux
3 119 (13.25%) Unix
4 49 (5.46%) Solaris
5 25 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.00%) CentOS
7 13 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.78%) AIX
9 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (17.48%) ITIL
3 97 (10.80%) Customer Service
4 90 (10.02%) ERP
5 73 (8.13%) Incident Management
6 62 (6.90%) Service Management
7 59 (6.57%) CRM
8 53 (5.90%) Agile
9 48 (5.35%) User Acceptance Testing
10 46 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (4.23%) DevOps
12 37 (4.12%) ITSM
12 37 (4.12%) Project Management
13 35 (3.90%) Change Management
13 35 (3.90%) Release Management
14 33 (3.67%) User Experience
15 32 (3.56%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (3.56%) Root Cause Analysis
16 31 (3.45%) Computer Science
17 30 (3.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 393 (43.76%) SQL
2 56 (6.24%) C#
3 51 (5.68%) Java
4 50 (5.57%) PowerShell
5 49 (5.46%) Python
6 46 (5.12%) T-SQL
7 45 (5.01%) Shell Script
8 38 (4.23%) JavaScript
9 29 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 28 (3.12%) Bash
11 19 (2.12%) Perl
12 18 (2.00%) Ruby
13 14 (1.56%) VBA
14 11 (1.22%) C++
15 8 (0.89%) C
16 7 (0.78%) VB
16 7 (0.78%) XPath
17 4 (0.45%) COBOL
18 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (13.47%) Degree
2 71 (7.91%) Security Cleared
3 43 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.45%) CIPD
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) ECDL
12 1 (0.11%) HNC
12 1 (0.11%) HND
12 1 (0.11%) MCITP
12 1 (0.11%) MCP
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
12 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.47%) SLA
2 24 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.78%) GDPR
4 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.45%) SOC 1
6 3 (0.33%) QA
7 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 35 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.00%) Docker
4 2 (0.22%) vSphere
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (2.23%) OpenSSO
1 20 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (1.34%) Data Guard
2 12 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (0.89%) Control-M
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (0.67%) Pingdom
5 6 (0.67%) Terraform
6 5 (0.56%) Grafana
7 4 (0.45%) SCOM
7 4 (0.45%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Packer
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 190 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 119 (13.25%) Oracle
3 34 (3.79%) ION Trading
3 34 (3.79%) SAP
4 32 (3.56%) Remedy
5 31 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.34%) NEC
7 26 (2.90%) Murex
7 26 (2.90%) Trayport
8 24 (2.67%) Bloomberg
9 22 (2.45%) Guidewire
10 19 (2.12%) Civica
10 19 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 19 (2.12%) Sun
11 18 (2.00%) CQG
11 18 (2.00%) Patsystems
11 18 (2.00%) Reuters
12 13 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.22%) Sage
14 10 (1.11%) Google